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As leftists in America, we all must realise: This is our party, and we need to fight to win it back.
Your vote in primary election can often be more influential than your vote in the general election. And any campaigning activity you do in the party's primary will be twice as impactful as activities during the general.
I want to vote in the primary, but every option I've looked into in my district just looks to be more of the same conservative light nonsense. I do find it funny that one of the options has a site that looks straight from the 90s, at least the one Ballotpedia links to. This is the closest to a "progressive" candidate, but getting any of them to speak on AIPAC is like pulling teeth.
I'm not going to lie and say that this is someone who I would enthusiastically vote for, but based on her campaign website I think that's still a decent candidate. Personally, I'm ideologically a social democrat and that candidate's campaign statements smell a bit too liberal for me to get excited over it, but she seems passable. If that's the best out of this year's batch, then vote for them and start agitating for people who you think would do a better job to run in 2028.
This is just the kind of stuff that keeps so many of us from even bothering in red states. I vote every chance I get in big and local elections, but damn is it hard to have it feel worth the time waiting in those long lines just to either vote for a moderate dem that most likely won't win or a third party that even more likely won't win. I feel better just working with the smaller political parties in my area that aren't aligned with the major 2 to do things cause at least they understand what's needed (shout-out to the upcoming May Day general strike that none of the Dems running here have acknowledged). They just don't have the funds to run for an individual state.
This is a serious suggestion, however blasphemous it may seem: Change your registration to Republican and then vote in the Republican primary for the most respectable person who is running. Changing your registration doesn't cost anything and doesn't affect anything. The Republican Party will also send you election material by post which you can simply discard or send back empty donation envelopes to waste their money on postage.
Oh you don't register with a party here in Missouri. You just tell them which ballot you want when you go to vote between Democrat, Republican, or Independent. This does mean we get postage from every party either asking for donations or just the usual "why my opponent sucks" ads.
I mean, you live in Missouri, man.
You're not going to get AOC to run in your district. Those people wont win the primaries. I lived in bum-fuck rural Pennsylvania, and people there called me 'big city boy' because I moved to that area from the suburbs of fucking Phoenix. And this was like 20 some years ago, so Phoenix was not exactly a big city in the slightest.
A dem like this, means that other more progressive dems have people they can reach out to, and get to vote on legislation that they sponsor.
Even if they vote 75% of the time with an AOC dem, that's 75% more yes votes than you'll get from a republican.
I'm not asking for AOC. I know the people here view her and people like Mamdani as traitorous communists (not to mention the racist smear campaigns ran against Cori Bush who was one of 2 Missouri government officials against AIPAC). I literally just want an acknowledgement of the genocide and to say they won't accept AIPAC money or vote alongside conservatives as a whole no matter what (all of them just single out Trump which to me sounds like they still view the GOP as worth saving).
it needs to be smashing the corrupt in the face and taking it, not lobbying slowly for it to change.
Twice is an understatement. Way less people vote in primaries.